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  • Echos that once had automatic greetings enabled

    From Henrik@2:460/58 to All on Fri Jan 15 17:25:15 2021
    IIUC, for some echos that are now available through the tg-BBS, there were phases where the BBS was configured to post a greeting message upon joining the group (and for some time a farewell message upon leaving). I was inspecting my correspondence in CHAT from last month and apparently it was too late to see that in action. Also noticing the name change from "tg2fido gate" to "tg BBS" between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.

    --- tg BBS v0.6.3
    * Origin: Fido by Telegram BBS by Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/58)
  • From Martin Foster@2:250/1.333 to Henrik on Sat Jan 16 11:02:58 2021
    Hello Henrik!

    *** Friday January 15 2021 17:25, you wrote to All:

    IIUC, for some echos that are now available through the tg-BBS, there
    were phases where the BBS was configured to post a greeting message
    upon joining the group

    IIRC, it wasn't a greeting message per se, it was an informational message which announced that a new user had joined the group.

    (and for some time a farewell message upon leaving).

    Yes, I remember something like that too.

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: v-v-v--- This side up ---v-v-v (2:250/1.333)
  • From Charles Pierson@1:106/127 to Martin Foster on Sat Jan 16 07:11:11 2021
    On 16 Jan 2021, Martin Foster said the following...
    IIUC, for some echos that are now available through the tg-BBS, there were phases where the BBS was configured to post a greeting message upon joining the group

    IIRC, it wasn't a greeting message per se, it was an informational
    message which announced that a new user had joined the group.

    (and for some time a farewell message upon leaving).

    Yes, I remember something like that too.

    Those messages still occur on the Telegram side, but Stas programmed unto the mailer tosser to ignore them passing into Fidonet, due to complaints, if I recall correctly.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: theoasisbbs.ddns.net:1357 (1:106/127)